A good, wholesome, laughable presentation of some Americans at home and abroad, on their vacations and during their hours of relaxation. =THE WOMAN OF THE WORLD.= By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Clever, original presentations of present day social problems and the best solutions of them. A book every girl and woman should possess. =THE LIGHT THAT LURES.= By Percy Brebner. Illustrated. Handsomely colored wrapper. A young Southerner who loved Lafayette, goes to France to aid him during the days of terror, and is lured in a certain direction by the lovely eyes of a Frenchwoman. =THE RAMRODDERS.= By Holman Day. Frontispiece by Harold Matthews Brett. A clever, timely story that will make politicians think and will make women realize the part that politics play--even in their romances. _Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction_ GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK The Prodigal Judge By VAUGHAN KESTER This great novel--probably the most popular book in this country to-day--is as human as a story from the pen of that great master of "immortal laughter and immortal tears," Charles Dickens. The Prodigal Judge is a shabby outcast, a tavern hanger-on, a genial wayfarer who tarries longest where the inn is most hospitable, yet with that suavity, that distinctive politeness and that saving grace of humor peculiar to the American man. He has his own code of morals--very exalted ones--but honors them in the breach rather than in the observance. Clinging to the Judge closer than a brother, is Solomon Mahaffy--fallible and failing like the rest of us, but with a sublime capacity for friendship; and closer still, perhaps, clings little Hannibal, a boy about whose parentage nothing is known until the end of the story. Hannibal is charmed into tolerance of the Judge's picturesque vices, while Miss Betty, lovely and capricious, is charmed into placing all her affairs, both material and sentimental, in the hands of this delightful old vagabond. The Judge will be a fixed star in the firmament of fictional characters as surely as David Harum or Col. Sellers. He is a source of infinite delight, while this story of Mr. Kester's is one of the finest examples of American literary craftsmanship. _Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction_ GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26TH ST., NEW YORK TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: 1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors; otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author's words and intent. 2. In the advertising pages at the end of this book, titles were typeset as underlined; this has been indicated by = preceding and following the title.